Las Vegas killers were 2nd Amendment gun cowards

The Second Amendment has been used by gun-rights groups for decades to claim they should be allowed to tote weapons around cities, into public buildings and pretty much anywhere they want. Yet those rights are being abused by wackos with guns who are killing innocent victims and then killing themselves.

Elliot Rodger killed six people before committing suicide near the University of California, Santa Barbara, on May 23.
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In these cases, as in so many more sad ones across the United States, the people who gained rights to carry guns didn’t use them as the Second Amendment supposedly alleges they should be used — to protect the freedoms of the United States.

Instead, the guns were used by cowards who wanted to kill as many people as possible, then not face the legal consequences for their actions.

America’s gun lovers have made these kinds of attacks so easy and so possible. What a sad time this nation is going through now with its obsessive love for guns.